Beside the mountain

By Stefania Silvestri

Subjects: Biography, Patients, Alzheimer's disease, Childhood and youth, Family relationships, Anecdotes, Adult children

Description: Stefania, her mother, and her two sisters travel with her father's ashes back to the cemetery of her parents' home village of Pacentro, Italy. Woven throughout this journey are recollections of the family's life in St. Louis, Missouri, as her father's dementia worsened.